The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-09-17
News of the Week.

Renorts have been received at the Depart
ment of State from Chill, to the effect that
cholera is spreading rapidly in that country.
September 9th was legal holiday in Cali
fornia, it being the thirty-seventh anniversary
| of the admission of California into the Union.
| Celebrations were held in all the principal
cities and towns.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company's new
round house, machine shops, and five loco
motives, at Lewiston, Penna., were burned
on Sunday morning. Loss, $4,000. Incen-
diarism is suspected.
The Governor of Georgia on Tuesday sign
ed the swine Room" bill, which imposes a
tax of $40, 900 on all wine rooms, thus legis-
lating them out of existence. These rooms
were permitted under the local option law.
Frederick Koch, 16 years old, went to his
home in New York drunk on Sunday night.
After an unsuccessful attempt to stab his
mother with pair of scissors, he drove them
into his own abdomen, nearly disembowelling
himself.
The vein of rock salt discovered at Ellis
worth, Kansas, is reported to be l65 feet
thick and 90 per cent. pure, the other per
cent being lime and magnesia, but no potash
The salt is pure white and fit for table use on
grinding only. The vein is 705 feet below the
surface.
Ex-Gov. Luke P. Blackburn, who had been
| lying at the point of death at Frankfort, Ky,
| for weeks past died there at 2.35 P. M. on
Wednesday. His last ineligible words were
spoken on Saturday last, and were, s'Oh, the
beauty of religion" Ex-Gov. Blackburn was
born June 10, 1916, in Woodford county, Ky.
! An effort is being made in Tolono, Illinois,
to enforce the state law making education
compulsory. Boys found on the streets dur
ing school hours are promptly arrested with
out warrants and locked up in the calaboose
unless they can satisfactorily explain their
absence from school.
Mrs. Henry Sell, while riding in a wagon
| to a funeral at Mortified, near Chicago, Sun
day afternoon, was shot dead by stray bullet
| from one of party of picnickers firing at a
mark. The blunderer who fired the shot was
Frank Rinkerberger, but the whole party
six men and four women-were arrested.
John and Henry Gunst, timers, fell from
the roof of three-story building in Pittsburg,
on Monday In the descent Henry struck
sharp stick which penetrated his brain, killing
him instantly. John was badly injured.
| They were repairing rain pipe, when one
slipped, and in trying to save him the other
lost his balance.
The schooner Arethusa arrived at Shell
burne, Nova Scotia, on Monday from the
Grand Banks. She reported that, on August
26th, during hurricane fourteen men belong
ing to the schooner Maria, of Pubnico, Nova
Scotia, were lost. The gale is reported as
unprecedented, and great damage has been
done fishermen on the Banks.
| Governor Bartlett, of California, died in
Oakland, Monday afternoon. He was ma
! tive of Savannah, Georgia, and was GO years
| of age. He was elected Governor on the
Democratic ticket in November, 1886, and
/ has hnar lodi off h,rV ant
Governor R. W. Watman, who was elected at
the same time on the Republican ticket.
J. C. Harris was shot twice in the head at
Cambridge, Ohio, on Saturday. With two
bullets in his brain he staggered to the depot
and boarded a train for Caldwell, several
miles south, which place he reached in an ex-
hausted condition. Harris says young wo-
man named Louise Morrison did the shooting,
because he would not marry her.
| The attempt to blow up a vessel by projec-
tiles from the pneumatic dynamite gun, which
was to have been made on the 18th instant at
Sandy Hook, has been postponed until the
goth at the request of the gun company,
which is not quite ready for the trial. Much
interest is felt in the experiment by army and
navy officers, and many of them are expected
to witness it.
The State Department is informed by our
| COHSul Ut IlClOu Lubt u dangerous anu COuId-
gious disease exists among the cattle, horses
and sheep in Nova Scotia, which threatens
the whole of Canada and may spread to the
| United States. Our customs officers on the
northeastern frontier have been ordered to
refuse entry into the United States of animals
and birds from Nova Scotia.
An express train on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad became unmamageable near
Rodamers Station, West Virginia, on Satur-
day afternoon, and dashed down a steep grade
| until a bridge was reached, when the engine,
tender and two baggage cars plunged into a
l'ravine one hundred feet deep. o. w. Cooper,
brakeman, was killed. A number of passen-
gers were injured, none fatally.
Acting land commissioner Stockslager has
prepared statement showing the estimated
number of acres restored to the public domain
under the August orders of the Secretary Of
the Interior, revoking indemnity Withdrawals,
is 81, 2s3, 600, exclusive of 1,513,000 acres
the within limits of Indian reservations. This
embraces the roads in regard to which res
toration orders have thus far been issued.
While in ambush some miles from Matan-
zas, Cuba, Thursday afternoon of last week |
just after landing, the band of Cuban filibus
tiers, which left Key West recently, were at
tackled by detachment of 300 Spanish SOL
diers. The latter were repulsed, leaving |
three of their number dead and carrying off |
five, who had been wounded by the dynamite |
bombs thrown by the filihustsra. The filibus
tiers then made their way into the interior.
D. 7. Littler, of the Pacific Railway Com
mission, began an investigation in Chicago on |
Tuesday into the affairs of the Sioux City |
and Pacific Railroad Company, which was |
subsidized by the Government to the extent |
of 81 500, 600. Although the road has been /
earning considerable money, no attempt has |
been made to pay the government, and no |
plans have ever been considered looking to |
that end.
The National Protective Association, com
posed of wholesale whisky dealers and distill-
ePs, met on Tuesday in Cincinnati. The as
ISOLATION was organized in Chicago a year |
ago, and since then has done great deal of
work in Michigan and Texas, against the |
Prohibitionists. The present field of action |
is Tennessee, where an election on the ques-
ton of prohbitory amendment will be held
near the close of this month.
A telegram from Tucson, Arizona, reports
that the severest storms ever known in that
section ragged Thursday and Friday of last
week. Five miles of the Southern Pacific
Railroad track between that point and Benson
were washed away, and steel raila were car
ried quarter Of mile down the river and
scattered for miles down the stream. Wash
outs are also reported all along the road to
Yuma. Two large bridges destroyed, and
broken down telegraph wires in some places,
buried ten feet in the sand.
John NJ. Carroll, who two years ago disap
peared from Staunton, Va, has returned.
At the time of his departure he was city treas
urer. An examination of his papers showed
that he owed the city and State between ten
and fourteen Thousand dollars His property
realized a sufficient sum to pay the indebted
ness. Carroll was supposed by some to have
been fonlly dealt with, and not long ago an
old well was dug out in Richmond in the ex-
pectation of recovering his remains. For the
past two years he has been engaged in bust
ness somewhere in the North and returned of
his own accord.
Preceding and during the County Con-
vention at Binghamton, New York, on Mon
day. many delegates stood in front of the
Ringhamton Savings Bank building, adjoin-
ing the convention hall, and discussed the
political situation. The notion got abroad
that run on the bank was in progress, which
increased as the rumor spread until Tuesday
morning when run really did begin. Hun.
dreds Of depositors anxiously presented them
selves, but, as all demands were promptly met,
confidence was restored, and in the afternoon
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